topic Re: Slow Ipad in Electronics

Slow Ipad

jagk — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:25:40 GMT

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Re: Slow Ipad

Tramost — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:33:57 GMT

Power-cycle -- turn it off and on.

Re: Slow Ipad

Iambeezer — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:32:13 GMT

You could provide more info, or just throw it in the trash.

Re: Slow Ipad

Nightowlz — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:34:30 GMT

On 7/23/2014 WIlliam Joseph said: You could provide more info, or just throw it in the trash.

If you don't have anything helpful to say why don't you just skip the thread?

Re: Slow Ipad

Lynnj — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:18:43 GMT

What is slow about it? Is it slow all of the time, at home and if you are somewhere else? What specifically are you doing when you notice it being slow?

Re: Slow Ipad

m2p — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:28:58 GMT

You may have a lot of apps open. Double click the home button. That'll show all the open apps on the bottom of your screen. Hold down one until they jiggle, then click on the x to close each one down.

Re: Slow Ipad

gazelle77 — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:30:14 GMT

On 7/23/2014 WIlliam Joseph said: You could provide more info, or just throw it in the trash.

Gosh William......got milk?

Re: Slow Ipad

RMBinFL — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:35:22 GMT

Maybe you need to close some apps. You may already know this, but my mom did not... The apps don't really close until you double push (quickly) the circle button which will then show the open apps all lined up. Swipe them up to get rid of them (that's the new iOS).

The older models, you double push the circle button, then a row of icons shows up at the bottom. You push on one of the icons until an X appears on it (see Note about this below before doing it). Then you X them all off.

NOTE: *Do NOT do this on the main screen because this is also how you delete a program. If you do by accident you can always re-download from the appstore without having to buy it again, but you might lose something you've worked on.

Sorry if this was too simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't know.

I'd agree with the powering off as well. And that does not mean pressing the button on top quickly. You hold that down until you get a message to slide bar across screen to actually turn the device off.

Ha! M2P you beat me to it

Re: Slow Ipad

wildcat fan — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:39:08 GMT

Do you mean it's slow while using the internet? If so, try clearing the browser history. When I'm using my iPad mini while browsing this forum, I find that it works faster if I clear the history every 5-10 minutes. Having lots of photos & videos in the camera roll can also slow it down. Have you checked in settings to see how much space is available? I found that mine worked faster when I deleted some videos.

Re: Slow Ipad

violann — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:16:20 GMT

I have an iPad2 with a lot of stuff on it, although not nearly to the limits of its memory, but it's slow too. I also have a Mini w. retina Display that's MUCH faster. I want to wait until I find out what I need for graduate school before I buy anything new so I'm just chugging along 'till I decide what to get next. My workhorse at home is an old MacBook Pro that still works like a champ.

Re: Slow Ipad

MKR14 — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:42:47 GMT

I agree that many people do not know that apps are open. My sister-in-law had the same slow problem with the battery draining down quickly. I asked her if she closed her apps and she had no clue. She had at least 100 apps open and I don't know how it ever kept a battery charge.

Re: Slow Ipad

kcladyz — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 22:01:54 GMT

Ihave ipad air and ever time it slowed down it always was a problem with my internet connection and not the ipad itself

Re: Slow Ipad

kcladyz — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 22:02:45 GMT

Also you may want to clear your cashe. its on the safari part of the settings i believe

Re: Slow Ipad

Mmsfoxxie — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:58:48 GMT

On 7/23/2014 Nightowlz said:
On 7/23/2014 WIlliam Joseph said: You could provide more info, or just throw it in the trash.

If you don't have anything helpful to say why don't you just skip the thread?

He's always mean.

Re: Slow Ipad

Rooney1 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 03:10:19 GMT

On 7/23/2014 becca914 said:
Maybe you need to close some apps. You may already know this, but my mom did not... The apps don't really close until you double push (quickly) the circle button which will then show the open apps all lined up. Swipe them up to get rid of them (that's the new iOS).

The older models, you double push the circle button, then a row of icons shows up at the bottom. You push on one of the icons until an X appears on it (see Note about this below before doing it). Then you X them all off.

NOTE: *Do NOT do this on the main screen because this is also how you delete a program. If you do by accident you can always re-download from the appstore without having to buy it again, but you might lose something you've worked on.

Sorry if this was too simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't know.

I'd agree with the powering off as well. And that does not mean pressing the button on top quickly. You hold that down until you get a message to slide bar across screen to actually turn the device off.

Ha! M2P you beat me to it

Oh my gosh Becca - I stumbled across your advice. Thanks you so much. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to close all those apps... You are a life ipad saver.